Railway Gauges
In rail transport, track gauge or track gage is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails. All vehicles on a rail network must have running gear that is compatible with the track gauge, and in the earliest days of railways the selection of a proposed railway's gauge was a key issue. As the dominant parameter determining interoperability, it is still frequently used as a descriptor of a route or network. In some places there is a distinction between the nominal gauge and the actual gauge, due to …
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IIGR: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations · 14 December 2015 English
Comparing the evolution of the internal trade regimes of Canada and Australia is appropriate in view of the important similarities between the two countries. [...] Table 2: Relevant Sections of …
of this in Australia was the variation in railway gauges that for many years made a change of trains …
